Trump administration orders removal of 900+ deep-sea climate monitoring instruments from Atlantic and Pacific
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Adam Kovac
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Summary
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a network of over 900 deep-sea monitoring instruments that has collected critical climate and oceanic data from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated a "descoping" process, with ships set to remove the instruments this month. This action targets one of the world's most trusted sources of continuous climate and ocean data.
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Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network.
The OOI confirmed that the National Science Foundation (NSF) had begun a 'descoping' process.
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